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 Message 2671 
 Fernando Toledo to August Abolins 
 Re: OXP: mixed date format at listing 
 24 Jan 22 13:35:34 
 
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El 22/1/22 a las 10:30, August Abolins escribió:
> Hello Martin!
> 
> ** On Friday 21.01.22 - 14:36, your wrote to me:
> 
>   AA>> ..Personally, I like the mixed use of DD.MM and MM/YY
>   AA>> It clearly helps to eyeball the messages that are clearly
>   AA>> older than 12 months.
> 
>   MF> Well yes, there is that about it but it still tends to confuse me
>   MF> occasionally, must be my age 8-/
> 
> In retrospect, I thought that the use of DD.MM and MM/YY (for
> older than 12 months) was very clever.  It's really not unlike
> what I see what some email programs try to do to help sort
> messages in a larger visual way.  Besides, we (OXP users) also
> have the option to use the wonderful S)earch features to
> identify messages within a date range.
> 
> If there were a change in the DD.MM vs MM/YY, I would rather
> have the option to retain that presentation as a config setting
> instead of replacing it with something to "fix" it.
> 
I agree, I do not consider it an error but a possible option to configure
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